The Amphitheater of Catania and the mystery of the disappearance of the school children

Catania told

Catania is an ancient port city located on the east coast of Sicily.

It is located at the foot of Etna and the city center (cathedral square), is embellished by Cathedral and from the statue of the Elephant Fountain. In the other corner of the square, there is the fish market: “The fish store” surrounded by restaurants serving exclusively fish. On weekdays where the market is held, there is a great chatter of people who sell and those who buy or just walking around the stalls meet other people.

The origins of Catania

Second Current Saints, the name “Catania” derives from Katàne. This is also confirmed by the history of Catania as it tells that in ancient Sicilian there is a word that sounds like “Katàne“as it was called by the Greeks. The term derives from "grater" as it refers to the appearance of the Catania soil made of rough and cutting lava soil.

Catania is not only history but also mysteries. Indeed a part of Catania, little known, hides mysteries and secrets in its basements.

Catania and its mysteries

The old area of ​​Catania has a Amphitheater unique in the world known as “The black Colosseum” in whose tunnels a secret is hidden: the mystery of the disappeared schoolchild.

History of the “Colosseum black”

Catania in the III and VI centuries AD. it shone with its own light and it can also be seen through there’Roman amphitheater in the old area of ​​Catania.

Fontane, villas and gardens surrounding the “Colosseum black” they showed that Catania had nothing to envy in Rome and its Colosseum.

“The black Colosseum” it was located between the sea and the volcano made of lava stone and internally covered with fine marble. But it could not be visited in full because part of it was submerged by the lava flows of Etna and, then, it is still not yet open to the public.

Shows of all kinds were held in this amphitheater.

The “Colosseum black” and the disappeared schoolchild

On the mysteries that circulate on Catania, the most known, is what in the 80s, a schoolchild disappeared during a visit inside the Amphitheater.

But what happened to the schoolchildren?

Legend has it that kids, after they visited the part open to the public, decided to venture into the underground part but…The searches were instantaneous but there was no trace of them: never was anyone found again.

Many hypotheses were made but to date no one has managed to solve this mystery.

Someone says that, when you cross those tunnels, voices are heard, cries and cries of adults and children. Superstitions and suggestions or there really are secret dungeons whose existence nobody knows?

Conclusions
Until you are sure of everything, you will continue to believe what you know so far.